_Broad Halfpenny Down_ (Vol. iv., p. 133.).--_Broad halpeny_, or _broad
halfpenny_, signifies to be quit of a certain custom exacted for setting
up tables or boards in fairs or markets; and those that were freed by
the King's charter of this custom, had this word put in their
letters-patent: by reason whereof, the freedom itself (for brevity of
speech) is called _broad halfpenny_. (_Les Termes de la Ley._) Hence the
origin of "Broad-halfpenny Down."